Flags By Colors
A breakdown of all the flag colors in the world. Pie-charts show how much each color is used in each flag. Link - via Coudal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/30/flags-by-colors/Archive for May 2007
LEGO Rubberband Chaingun.
Sebastian Dick said this LEGO chaingun was the biggest project he’s ever tried. It has eight barrels and a 64-shot capacity. The motor driven barrels start winding up to speed at the flick of a switch on t...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/lego-rubberband-chaingun/The Best Neighbor Ever.
Fifteen Reasons Why Mister Rogers was the Best Neighbor Ever lays out a pretty convincing case. For example: Most people have heard of Koko, the Stanford-educated gorilla who could speak about 1000 words in American...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/the-best-neighbor-ever/What Really Happened at Pearl Harbor: Nazi Robot Attack.
Recently, we had an article on Neatorama regarding conspiracy theories surrounding Pearl Harbor.Apparently, we were wrong: this is what truly happened there: Nazi Robot Attack (as animated by Marco Spitoni of Cee Gee): L...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/what-really-happened-at-pearl-harbor-nazi-robot-attack/Aging and Our Senses.
The Boomer Chronicle has a series of short articles titled Aging and Our Senses - here's what you have to look forward to about your sense of taste:Our approximately 9,000 taste buds begin to decrease in number begin...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/aging-and-our-senses/Medusa's Secret.
Here are some rockin' webcomics from Carl Huber of the WAREHOUSE (This one is called Medusa's Secret): Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/medusas-secret/Gorgeous Multiple Mac Displays.
Glenn Wolsey has a neat list of the Top 10 Multiple Display Mac Setups. Those cinema displays are gorgeous! Link - via Gears and Widgets...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/gorgeous-multiple-mac-displays/Bluesmobile.
Oh yeah! The Bluesmobile [wiki] is alive and well! Here's one spotted by Dave Thornton: Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/bluesmobile/The Bloody Olive.
Here's one of the best short films (10 min.) ever made: The Bloody Olive (1996) by Vincent Bal. Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Sum Res Cogitans...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/the-bloody-olive/Stainless Steel Mess Tray.
For just $18 you can get 3 stainless steel mess tray, so you can eat just like at boot camp (or prison - wait, do prisoners eat from steel trays?)Link - via The Windowshoppist...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/stainless-steel-mess-tray/LEGO Clock Tower.
The University of Tokyo LEGO Club has completed a LEGO replica of the campus’ clock tower. Here’s an image of the real building. Link (in Japanese) -via The Brothers Brick...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/lego-clock-tower/Pig Candy.
* Buy good quality, thick-sliced bacon. * Prepare the brown sugar and cayenne pepper topping. * Arrange bacon on a broiler pan. * Cook for 20 minutes at 300-350°F. * Turn bacon, apply topping, and cook anothe...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/pig-candy/Lion in the Tub.
After a leopard in the bed and a cheetah in the car, wouldn’t you rather be lion in the bathtub? This image of a circus lion getting a wash was found at Wisconsin History. Link...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/lion-in-the-tub/Cheetah in the Car
I came to think of this video clip when I saw Miss Cellania's recent Leopard in the Bed entry. Link [YouTube]...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/cheetah-in-the-car/Leopard in the Bed.
Sleeping in your own bed in Israel, the last thing you might expect is for a leopard to jump in with you! Clad only in his night clothes, Arthur Du Mosch lunged at the big cat and grabbed its neck, pinning it down...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/leopard-in-the-bed/Å koda Fabia.
An ad for the Czech automobile Å koda Fabia {wiki} features the car made of cake! Militant Platypus has the recipe and the video. http://www.militantplatypus.com/blog/archives/3726...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/skoda-fabia/Swim At Your Own Risk.
Swim at Your Own Risk is a blog detailing shark attacks, attacks by other marine animals, and generally all the awful things that might happen to you at the beach. Although the odds of attack for each beachgoer are very...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/swim-at-your-own-risk/This Won't Hurt a Bit: A Painlessly Short (and Incomplete) Evolution of Execution.
As long as there have been criminals, there have been governments thinking up novel ways to execute 'em. We don't know which of the following gruesome methods the Founding Fathers had in mind with that whole ban on...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/29/this-wont-hurt-a-bit-a-painlessly-short-and-incomplete-evolution-of-execution/Steve Sieren Photography.
Granite ReflectionA World UnsubmergedDevil's Golfcourse, Death Valley National Park, CaliforniaSteve Sieren has a fantastic portfolio of landscape (and other) photography. I absolutely love the sets from the California C...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/steve-sieren-photography/Smoking Fingers.
Here's another magic trick: how to produce smoke just by rubbing two fingers together.Link [metacafe] - Thanks Holly H.!...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/smoking-fingers/LOTR Re-Enacted by The Muppets.
Here's the best Lord of the Rings re-creation ever: The Muppet Show in Ham's Deep! Whenever I’m in Toronto, I try to duck down to Queen Street West for a visit to The Silver Snail, one of the coolest comic book...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/lotr-re-enacted-by-the-muppets/How to Conjure Up Cards from Thin Air.
Here's a magic trick you can learn: the Cardini Single Production, or how to conjure up cards from thin air!(Warning: magic spoiler - something gets lost when you figure out the trick behind the magic) Link [Metacafe] -...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/how-to-conjure-up-cards-from-thin-air/How the Pentagon Got Built.
From Washington Post:ON A WARM AND RAINY THURSDAY EVENING IN JULY 1941, inside a War Department office in Washington, a small group of Army officers hastily assembled for a meeting and listened in disbelief to the se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/how-the-pentagon-got-built/The Church in the Middle of a Field of Black Lava.
More than fifty years ago, a volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacan suddenly rose from the ground and buried two villages under lava and ashes.Today, the only trace of the villages is the church tower of San Juan Para...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/the-church-in-the-middle-of-a-field-of-black-lava/The Prism of Sennacherib.
This hexagonal clay prism (often called the Taylor prism) records the deeds of the Assyrian king, Sennacherib, c. 689 BCE. Sennacherib was an important figure in the Old Testament and is mentioned in II Kings. (I saw thi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/the-prism-of-sennacherib/1938 German Ballot.
From Wikipedia: The ballot text reads "Do you agree with the reunification of Austria with the German Empire that was enacted on 13 March 1938, and do you vote for the party of our leader Adolf Hitler?," the large...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/1938-german-ballot/Cognitive Biases.
Wade Meredith of Healthbolt has a neat list of 26 cognitive biases - basically ways our minds distort our views of reality (or why what you think is right is actually wrong!)For example: 1. Bandwagon effect - the ten...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/cognitive-biases/A Tale of a Greedy Charity.
Neighbors were completely surprised to learn that when modest-living Hector Guy Di Stefano and his wife Doris died, they left a $264 million estate to be divided equally among 8 charities, among them them the Salvation A...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/a-tale-of-a-greedy-charity/Toddler Terrorized Monks.
Here's a tale of toddler behaving badly: It took a group of 10 Buddhist monks a whole week to create an intricate sand art. They were half done, that is, until a two-year-old toddler arrived!Hit play or go to Link [YouTu...
https://www.neatorama.com/2007/05/28/toddler-terrorized-monks/
